TDD in Yii2

Hi,

First off, I’m making this topic to receive feedback on the course I’ve taken and maybe sombody can point out obstacles I have not anticipated.

I attemp to make Yii site the “TDD way”. I’m not using codeception because I will be only using unit tests and will not mock static methods, also I am going to only retrieve data from db during tests (no saving) so my environment remains the same. I have made ModelFactory which will be used throughout site to enable mocking of anything I would want to.

ModelFactory:





namespace common\components;


use Yii;

use yii\db\ActiveQuery;


class ModelFactory {


    /**

     * @inheritdoc

     * @return ActiveQuery the newly created [[ActiveQuery]] instance.

     */

    public function find($className) {

        return Yii::createObject(ActiveQuery::className(), [$className]);

    }


    public function create($className) {

        return new $className;

    }


}



It is attached to config as component ‘factory’.

Example controller action (it’s just to show how I’m using factory):




    public function actionUpdate($id, $idFel = null) {

        $forms = $this->findModel($id);

        $formElements = null;

        $formValues = array();


        if($idFel !== null)

            $formElements = Yii::$app->factory->find(FormElements::className())->where(['id_fel' => $idFel])->one();


        if($formElements === null)

            $formElements = Yii::$app->factory->create(FormElements::className());


        if($formElements->getIsNewRecord() === false)

            $formValues = Yii::$app->factory->find(FormValues::className())->where(['id_fel' => $formElements->id_fel])->all();


        if(empty($formValues))

            $formValues = [Yii::$app->factory->create(FormValues::className())];


        if ($forms->load(Yii::$app->request->post()) && $forms->save()) {

            return $this->redirect(['view', 'id' => $forms->id_for]);

        } else {

            return $this->render('update', [

                'forms' => $forms,

                'formElements' => $formElements,

                'formValues' => $formValues,

            ]);

        }

    }



Tests I have written for this method so far are not using factory to mock find results etc… so I am not providing those, anyway I think it illustrates my point.

What do you think about it?

Thanks in advance for all the input.